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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 42108
Released: January 11, 2000 |
| Our Price: $7.34 |
| Used Price: $3.00 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
AC-3 Color Dolby DVD NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
The Last Supper is the first-ever live DVD from legendary Metal superstars Black Sabbath, which includes all of Sabbath's biggest hits performed live. The Last Supper features all of the original members of Black Sabbath--Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward--on their sold-out 1999 Reunion tour, and includes behind-the-scenes interviews and tour photos. 120 minutes.
Description of Black Sabbath - The Last Supper:
There was something genuinely heartwarming about the decision by Black Sabbath's founding members to take to the road again in 1999. The fractious intra-band relationships that have characterized Black Sabbath's long career were a major inspiration for the writers of This Is Spinal Tap, and so the Sabs' reunion created something pleasingly symmetrical and evocative of the closing scenes of that fine film.
The concert footage was taken from six of the concerts on that tour. It is conclusive proof that the original quartet of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, and Ward (or, in Osbourne's words, "four dickheads from Aston, near Birmingham") were every bit as exuberantly juvenile a rock & roll band in their early 50s as their late teens. Also included is a sketchy biography and interviews with the band by Henry Rollins, one of the countless contemporary musicians influenced by Sabbath. It's a nice idea, but the only real weakness of the package is that Ozzy is never granted time to wheel out any of his peerless reserve of grotesque rock & roll anecdotes. Nevertheless, the already formidable case for Osbourne's knighthood is strengthened further. --Andrew Mueller, Amazon.co.uk
Black Sabbath - The Last Supper Reviews:
An Audiophile Viewer 
2009-08-28 - What a terrible production DVD with these interviews interrupted the concert ! Ozzy, Tony..... please for God's sake, get this concert remastered again without interviews and reproduce to the market. A refund for this DVD who purchased ?? A big joke !
Great DVD 
2009-08-22 - Very good but les talking are more LIVE songs would have been great, they cut off some great live meterial!
Do over, PLEASE! 
2009-06-16 - I've had this DVD since it came out and haven't watched it in years. I just pulled it back out and remembered why. I am reading through all these other reviews and everyone says the same thing. The interview interruptions are unforgivable. Don't get me wrong, I love a good documentary and I will watch one about a band I don't even like, like Nirvana, just to learn the history and hear the characters tell their stories. This could have been a magnificent DVD if they had allowed all the songs to play though uninterrupted and save all the interviews for in between or a separate disc. It's great to hear Bill tell the story of the opium-induced title for NIB, BUT NOT DURING THE SONG. If anyone who has anything to do with Sabbath (SHARON!!!) is reading this, please go back to the drawing board and do this video right. Also, why 1999? Isn't there footage from the TRUE 1997 Reunion shows???
Black Sabbath - Last Supper 
2009-02-16 - Features : Ozzy Osbourne / Toni Iommi / Geezer Butler / Bill Ward - 1999 Sony Pictures Release - 2 Hours - Songs Include :
War Pigs / N.I.B. / Electric Funeral / Fairies Wear Boots / Into The Void / Sweet Leaf / Snowblind / After Forever / Dirty Women / Black Sabbath / Iron Man / Children Of The Grave / Paranoid
Watching these guys play is a treat.
2008-10-13 - The performances are excellent. Watching these guys play is a treat. I'm glad they're getting the respect they've always deserved.
The mix is a bit muddy on the low end, so I took off a star for that. Nothing a good remixing and remastering couldn't fix.
The mix is excellent for guitar and voice, though. Ozzy's singing is great, and more importantly Tony's guitar tone is absolutely fabulous, as good as on the records.
People are complaining about how the performances are interrupted by interviews. This is NOT a problem. Get over it. This is a documentary and a concert film in one. I completely enjoy the intermingling interviews. If you want to hear your Sabbath uninterrupted, go buy the accompanying live CD.
